America's Founding Fathers

George Washington

1st U.S. President 

"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian." 

_{--The Writings of Washington, pp. 342-343.}

John Adams 

2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence 

"Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God ... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be." 

_{--Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, p. 9.}

Thomas Jefferson 

3rd U.S. President, Drafter and Signer of the Declaration of Independence 

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever; That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event." 

_{--Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.} 

"I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ." 

_{--The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 385.}

Have a blessed birthday, America!